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Artwork on the walls of the Girls School in the Yeshiva Schools in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill North. (Photo by Clare Sheedy/PublicSource)

Jewish schools and groups ask students to focus on kindness, community healing during synagogue massacre trial

by Lajja Mistry April 20, 2023April 19, 2023

Sharon Gregory, left, of Penn Hills, wipes tears at the conclusion of the Restorative Justice Rededication Ceremony for Bethel AME Church as she stands arm in arm with Janet Lee Patterson, right, who was married at the site, on Friday, April 14, 2023, at the former location of the legendary Lower Hill District church. “To see a time such a this warms my heart, to hear it is time, the time is now to address all the issues that are before us,” said Gregory, whose family lived in the Hill as she grew up and played there. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Penguins, developer and Pittsburgh’s oldest Black church announce deal, but not details

by Eric Jankiewicz April 14, 2023April 16, 2023

A man plays the saxophone on the Andy Warhol Bridge as Pittsburgh Pirates fans walk across to get to PNC Park on Friday, April 7th, 2023. (Photo by Amaya Lobato-Rivas)

Community storytelling

For a time, it seemed the 31st Street Bridge was all mine. Why not give a Pittsburgh bridge to the people?

by First-person essay by Laura Walsh April 13, 2023April 16, 2023

Aim Comperatore stands for a portrait at their Pressley Street High Rise apartment on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in East Allegheny. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Fear not gender-neutral pronouns! They can be fun.

by First-person essay by Aim T. Comperatore April 7, 2023April 6, 2023

Author Amanda Filippelli and her one-year-old son, River, on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Baldwin Borough. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Community storytelling

‘We are held.’ At the end of a grief-shadowed pregnancy, an echo, then a life.

by Amanda Filippelli March 31, 2023April 7, 2023

The teens featured in the From the Source podcast Season Four

FROM THE SOURCE PODCAST

Youth voices unleashed: From the Source finale | S4, Ep. 12

by Jourdan Hicks March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Along the Monongahela River, Braddock Avenue runs between train tracks and U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works, which occupies parts of Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh and North Versailles. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/Publicsource)

In Braddock, imagining environmental justice for a ‘sacrifice zone’

by Quinn Glabicki March 27, 2023March 24, 2023

An illustration of a woman holding her hands open and looking to the sky on a yellow background.

GENDER & IDENTITY

Teaching myself to be unbothered: My Black Women’s History Month lesson 30 years in the making.

by First-person essay by Tahirah J. Walker March 24, 2023March 23, 2023

Sarah Gethers sits for a portrait in her apartment on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Bellevue. If I’m ‘the demographic corporate America wants so desperately,’ why am I constantly sidelined? Writes Gethers in her first person essay. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

GENDER & IDENTITY

If I’m ‘the demographic corporate America wants so desperately,’ why am I constantly sidelined?

by Sarah Gethers March 17, 2023March 19, 2023

Created through a community mural project, the vibrant murals depicted the faces of young people and historical figures. Since painting over the mural back in July, the property owner has run into a dilemma with the artist who designed the artwork and led the project back in 2007. (Photo by Amaya Lobato-Rivas/PublicSource)

Community storytelling

Public art vs. property rights: Artist and property owner face off over a mural in Wilkinsburg

by Betul Tuncer March 16, 2023March 16, 2023